Word: journalists
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...Russian party, which spent Monday and Tuesday at M.I.T., consists of young professional workers from various regions of the Soviet Union. The 15 men and 6 women include engineers, teachers, miners, a collective farm chairman, a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda, and a representative to the Supreme Soviet...
...born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, the year the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. He died August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, on the eve of the Great March on Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
Lacerda is one of the most spectacular prodigies that Brazil has ever produced. The son of an influential Rio journalist, he was managing editor of one of Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot...
...cannot resist biting the hand that feeds him," the London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill...
...high point in the campaign was Ike's pledge to visit Korea immediately if he was elected-a suggestion often credited to Journalist Emmet John Hughes, then a speechwriter on his staff, later author of a book bitterly attacking Eisenhower and his policies. Author Eisenhower, however, mentions Hughes not at all in this connection. Several groups were batting the idea around at the time, says Ike, and he gives most of the credit to Adviser C. D. Jackson. Hughes he later dismisses as "a writer with a talent for phrase-making." Ike takes due note of his own famed...